Maybe so....but then again, you have to 'invent' your gatekeeper fantasy to make most religions work. Otherwise, there is no reason to grovel other than they'll chop off your head if you don't show up at the mosque each week on Friday.

If there is an afterlife....and I don't accept that...everyone goes there, and we all sit around drinking beer, eating great food, burping, playing accordions, and recorders......hiking in the mountains, skiing, doing ham radio , reading....and everyone looks like they are 21 years old, and they don't mind the 2 billion screaming babies that never got potty trained on earth.